Julien Carmona joins the SCOR group on 20 October 2009, as Adviser to the Group Chairman. On 1 January 2010, he will take over the post of Group Chief Operating Officer (COO). He will succeed Patrick Thourot, who has been COO since February 2003 and is due to retire in January 2010. 
 

Julian Carmona, 39, is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and has an advanced degree in history. He is also a former student of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration and a former French Treasury Auditor. After beginning his career at the French Finance Ministry, he joined BNP Paribas in 2001. From 2004 to 2007, he acted as Financial Adviser to the President of the Republic. He was Executive Finance Director at the Caisse Nationale des Caisses d'Epargne (CNCE) from June 2007 until it merged with the Groupe des Banques Populaires in July 2009.